Barack Obama: “I'm encouraging Congress to take it with the utmost seriousness.”

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

I was a little tall for it.